Entire City Evacuated as Massive Wildfire Destroys Canada's Fort McMurray
'It's gone. It's all gone': Wildfire empties Fort McMurray as flames enter city | https://t.co/fX0ORszlGp | #ymmpic.twitter.com/PykmbKdi8U— Fort McMurray Today (@FortMacToday) May 4, 2016Around 270...
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Gandini's Circus in Edmond, Oklahoma
In the midst of the subdivisions of Edmond, Oklahoma -- up the street from the Sonic Drive-In and the local vape shop -- sits an unassuming bit of woods that conceals the decaying evidence of the...
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The House of Mugs in Collettsville, North Carolina
The House of Mugs (a/k/a, the Collettsville Cup House) is a true labor of love created one nail and mug at a time.At the very end of an unpaved country road stands a cozy home, completely covered in...
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Canadian Scientists Are Speaking Out After 9 Years of Censorship
Canada's Minister for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, center, who announced a change to the rules for scientists in November. (Photo: Michael Ignatieff/CC BY-ND 2.0)For...
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Mount Tanigawa in Tsuchitaru, Yuzawa, Japan
At 6,487 feet, Mount Tanigawa is not the highest peak in Japan—but it is the most deadly. Thick with foliage in the fall, heavy with snow in the winter, and at the nexus of two weather systems, it is...
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Rök Rune Stone in Ödeshög V, Sweden
What was once building material in a church wall in the Swedish countryside is today a unique piece of history, telling stories of battles, kings and heroes long gone. Yet for centuries, passersby were...
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The Wahweap Hoodoos in Utah
In the dry lands of Southern Utah, three hours north of the Grand Canyon's South Rim, lies a rarely used 9.2 mile out-and-back trail. The trail usage may be low, but those who take the 5 hour hike will...
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Scientists Grow 2-Week-Old Human Embryo Outside of Womb For First Time
(Photo: Umberto Salvagnin/CC BY 2.0)For the first time, scientists have grown a human embryo for two weeks outside of a mother's womb, they said Wednesday.Among the things they learned? That cells in...
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The New Orleans Train Garden in New Orleans, Louisiana
When it comes to evocations of the past, model railroads are hard to beat. Few North American cities, meanwhile, can boast histories as rich, as complex and as downright engaging as that of New...
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Elvis' Long, Failed Quest to Meet J. Edgar Hoover, His Hero
When the King met Nixon. (Photo: Ollie Atkins/Public Domain)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.While the meeting between Nixon and the King is the stuff of legend, hidden...
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Hotel Majestic in San Francisco, California
The Hotel Majestic is a charming, elegant and is San Francisco's oldest continuously operating hotel. It also has another attribute: the fourth floor is said by many guests, and the hotel itself, to be...
View ArticleHipsters Trap Themselves In Wristbands Weeks Before Hip Thing
@GovBallNYC i get excited easily and have very sensitive wrists. how can we fix this? pic.twitter.com/f0AMd18kfB— annabelle (@annabellehanflg) May 3, 2016Governors Ball—New York City's annual gathering...
View ArticleFound: Stranded Sailor After 2 Months Adrift
On Wednesday, a Colombian sailor found stranded out in the Pacific Ocean 3,500 miles from home finally made it to dry land, according to NBC News. He'd been fighting for survival for two months, forced...
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The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile
None-too-subtle spikes at the 18th-century Miles Brewton House in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo: Spencer Means/CC BY-SA 2.0)There's a fearsome fence surrounding the Miles Brewton House in...
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Putim Ossuary in Putim, Czech Republic
The Putim Ossuary, located in the town of Putim, in the Czech Republic, is cloaked in folktale. The ossuary, a small, unassuming building of a clay-brown hue, was first erected in 1741. Tucked in a...
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In Istanbul, You Can Find Old Prisons in Restaurants, Mosques, Even 4-Star...
A photochrom of Istanbul, c. 1890. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ppmsca-03047)If we know anything about Turkish prisons, we probably learned it from the 1978 film Midnight Express, loosely based...
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Remote Year Promised to Combine Work and Travel. Was It Too Good to Be True?
Remote Year involves working while traveling through twelve countries in twelve months. (Photo: selinofoto/shutterstock.com)When Nissa Szabo, a 27-year-old tech industry lobbyist from Denver, Colorado,...
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The Town of Coca-Cola Millionaires in Quincy, Florida
A small town in Florida was once the richest town per capita in the United States, all thanks to one shrewd businessman who urged his fellow townspeople to invest in Coca-Cola shares while they were...
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Scientists Uncover a Huge Trove of Dinosaur Fossils in Antarctica
A mosasaur, also depicted in Jurassic World. (Photo: Dmitry Bogdanov/CC BY 3.0)Over a ton of dinosaur fossils from 71 million years ago were recently discovered in Antarctica, scientists said.The...
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Pratt Rock - New York's Mount Rushmore in Prattsville, New York
A prominent and wealthy New York businessman just about single-handedly established the Upstate town of Prattsville. He also had a mountainside monument built to himself, so that no one would forget...
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